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Hoosier Lotto was the first Indiana lottery game. Drawings are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The game draws 6 numbers from a field of primary numbers ranging from 1 through 46. Jackpots begin at $1 million and increases in multiples of $100,000 for each drawing that doesn’t have a jackpot winner. Games cost $2 each.
Winners can contact Hoosier Lottery at 1-800-955-6886 for instructions. Hoosier Lottery also recommends the ticket holder keep it in a safe place and consider meet with a financial advisor.
A law passed in 2007 allowed the state's two racetracks, Hoosier Park and Indiana Downs, to install up to 2,000 slot machines each. [74] In 2015, the legislature amended the casino law to allow the state's riverboat casinos to move into land-based facilities on their existing sites, to help them remain competitive with casinos in neighboring ...
€371.1 million (US$394.6 million) was the largest single-ticket jackpot in Italy's SuperEnalotto lottery, won on 16 February 2023. €98.4 million (US$112.0 million) [ 79 ] was the largest jackpot in Spain 's La Primitiva (not to be confused with El Gordo de la Primitiva ), won by a single ticket holder on Thursday 15 October 2015.
In November 2011, three Greenwich, Connecticut, financial executives shared a jackpot of $254.2 million ($344 million today), the largest prize on a Connecticut-bought ticket. Choosing the cash option, the men split nearly $104 million after withholdings. The jackpot, at the time, was the 12th largest in Powerball history. [63]
Six-number games historically are the most popular kind of lottery in the U.S., although "5+1" games have grown in popularity, especially with the rise of multi-state games. The Canadian Lotto 6/49 is one of its two national lottery games. Typically, six-number games cost $1 per play. and most are drawn twice weekly, often Wednesdays and Saturdays.
I like that the list includes all jackpots "of $300 million or more (annuity value)." A top 10, 25, 50 cut-off seems too arbitrary. There is currently 64 wins in the list, which span the last 23 years. The lowest cash amount is $146m, which is still high compared to lottery records outside the US.
Six contestants faced a board of 30 numbers and played three rounds, with each contestant choosing one number per round. Two numbers hid bonus prizes (most commonly 5,000 Hoosier Lottery scratch-off tickets and a trip sponsored by ATA Airlines), while the others hid cash amounts from $1,000 to $10,000 (the typical layout in the 1990s was ten $1000s, six $2000s, four $3,000s, two $4,000s, one ...